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San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
In this letter addressed "Dear Brother," Rogers informs Fritz of the murder of newspaper editor James King by rival editor James P. Casey in San Francisco, and the ensuing excitement in the city regarding the capture of Casey and fellow conspirator Charles Cora, with the eventual involvement of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The two-page letter is written on pages three and four of a four-page pamphlet, with the first page containing a printed account of the incident, entitled "The Revolution of the People: Surrender of James P. Casey & Charles Cora To the Vigilance Committe, on Sunday, May 18th, 1856," beneath an engraving signed by Charles P. Huestis.
mssHM 19468
Visual Materials
Image of a central image of a bucking horse that has thrown its rider who lays injured on the ground, with the caption "Death defying Wild Horse Riding," surrounded by four vignettes of cowboys with fringed chaps, cowboy hats, and a lasso trying to ride rodeo animals with the captions "Steer Riding," "Roping," "Bronco Busting," and Bull Dogging," with an image of a saddle decorating a monogram of the initials D&H at bottom center; the poster advertises the film "California Rodeo" produced by Duhem and Harter of the California Rodeo of 1913 held in Salinas, California.
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Manuscripts
Brief recounting of the life and death of Lloyd Magruder, Jr., an Idaho merchant and one time Congressional candidate who made a fortune from gold mining in Washington in the early 1860s. The account focuses on his 1863 murder by Chris Lowry, Doc Howard (David Renton), Jim Romaine, and Bill Page, guards hired by Magruder to escort him back to Idaho. It ends with the eventual capture and execution of Magruder's murderers in San Francisco, California. Typescript with handwritten notes by Wolfe. Also includes a published version of the article, which was presented at the 1932 meeting of the American Clan Gregor Society.
mssHM 72990
Visual Materials
Seen from the side, a woman in a bowler hat and dark-colored dress, sits sidesaddle on a horse in Pasadena, California. Scattered tress and a windmill in the background.
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Rare Books
This collection consists of railroad photographs, ephemera and publications, 1829-2010, with the bulk of material from the early- to mid-20th century. The focus is chiefly locomotives and trains (steam and diesel) of major railroads and interurban electric railways of the United States and Canada. Also represented in the collection are smaller shortline and narrow-gauge railroads; other foreign railroads; streetcars (or trolleys); and burgeoning light rail and subway systems. Most of the ephemera is printed material produced by railroad companies for promotional and business purposes, such as annual reports, brochures, route maps and guides, timetables, tickets, dining menus, stationery, stock certificates, bond coupons and other items. There are also many city and state tourist guidebooks describing sights along rail routes or promoting land available for farming, mining or home-building across the United States. Also included are items produced for or by railroad employees, such as instruction and safety manuals, train orders, freight bills and in-house newsletters. Railroad industry publications, statistics and reports can be found in the American Association of Railroads files, which are part of Donald Duke's subject files on railroad-related topics. Throughout the ephemera files are newspaper and journal clippings, often from scarce small press and trade publications such as The Railway and Engineering Review, The Railroad Gazette, The Santa Fe Magazine, The Western Railroader, Railway Age and others. In addition to railroad history, other topics of social and cultural historical interest in the ephemera are: Depictions of African Americans and Native Americans in mass-marketed train travel brochures. There are many examples that reflect American cultural and class stereotypes in the early- to mid-20th century. Selected files are noted in the container list. Occupational safety and health: See railroad worker safety manuals and accident prevention literature in ephemera files. History of food and drink: See numerous dining and beverage menus throughout Railroads and Foreign Railroads ephemera files (not always noted in container list). History of graphic design and typography: See examples of early- and mid- 20th century popular styles in printed ephemera throughout collection. Photographs and negatives: The photographs depict locomotives, freight and passenger trains, logging railroads, electric interurbans and streetcars across the United States. This was primarily a publishers file of ready-for-press photographs, which are almost all 8 x 10-inch black-and-white prints, made approximately 1950s-1980s. The photographs were made chiefly by various amateur train photographers, including Donald Duke, but most are uncredited. There are some copy prints (photographs of other photographs), and a few original photographs from the late 19th-early 20th century. Some photographs have locations and dates written on the back, but many are unidentified other than the name of the railroad. There are a few files on Ward Kimball (1914-2002), one of the original animators for Walt Disney Studios and an avid rail enthusiast. There are some photographs, biographical materials, and a file on his personal backyard narrow-gauge steam railroad, Grizzly Flats Railroad, in San Gabriel, California.
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Approx. 12 items: LAT clip copies on Griffith's philanthropy (donated the land for vast Griffith Park), his business dealings, an attempt on his wife's life--which is went to prison for--and his eventual work for penal reform. Also included is a chapter (pp. 119-134) from the book, Take the Witness (1934), focusing on Griffith's personal history.
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